danwallach / CalWatch

Android WearOS watch face app, displays your day's events on your wrist
https://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/calwatch/
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[Enhancement Proposal] Add an option for a 24-hour clock face #3

Open masasin opened 3 years ago

masasin commented 3 years ago

I have events with people from around the world, so I use either a digital watchface, or a 24-hour analog face. The only app that provides this, along with calendar functionality, is Sectograph, which I have been using for the last two years or so. Would it be possible to add a 24-hour watchface?

danwallach commented 3 years ago

It's certainly possible. All the code is open source, so you're welcome to take a swing at it. I'm not entirely clear how you'd do the design, though. Would you base it on a "GMT" watch? Would you do something different for the upcoming 12 hours versus 13-24? Would you have 12 hours on the main dial in your local timezone and 24 hours on a subdual floating over the main dial?

For what it's worth, the design of CalWatch was and should continue to be "keep it as simple as absolutely possible". If you had a good design idea, you could probably code it up in a few days and try it out.

masasin commented 3 years ago

Hi

I don't have the Android SDK etc, and zero experience with Android (and Android Wear) development, so I'm not sure if I'd be able to help directly.

I was thinking all 24 hours on the clock. Noon above and midnight above are the two most common; having a toggle button might be useful there. For example, with noon on top, noon to midnight is on the right side, and midnight to noon is on the left side. Here is an example from the Spectrograph home page. I use this version (on the phone) 100% of the time.

I think it's very simple/intuitive.